http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08012008/profile.html
Friday August 1 was a repeat of the show "Capitol Crimes".
Un-Bee-Leave-Ah-Bull.
There is evil in the world. Its up to people who won't cross over the line to keep the evil ones in check. In the case of Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist, and Tom DeLay - they were evil personified. How sad and alarming.
I know I'm late to this story, but I'm just a regular person - its hard to understand the story while its happening.
They're evil because they exploited people's oppressed status (Marianas and Choctaw tribe) and people's religious beliefs (right wing Christians) to generate money for themselves and to bring about a 'new order' of conservativism in Washington.
I'm not clear about what kind of conservatism they think they were exemplifying. Free Market economy? It can't be a free market when the workers are slaves (Marianas). They started their groups built on an ideology. But, what kind of an ideology was it? What was it about the Republicans that made them think that matched their ideology? But, I can't imagine all Republicans would consider exploitation, coverups, money laundering, hypocrisy, name-calling, etc part of their ideology. And yet - Republicans still voted for that whole crowd of evildoers when they elected George W Bush once and again. So, maybe it is part of their ideology.
Ralph Reed is a hypocritical evildoer - he told his Christian coalition people that they should give money to his cause to outlaw the sin of gambling. But, he was getting his money from gambling interests (Choctaw tribe). Despicable.
As a point of interest - Ralph Reed is hosting a John McCain event in the near future.
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